But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...
Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is ...
The search for alien life often sparks the imagination with images of extraterrestrial beings and strange worlds. However, a new theory is shifting the focus—what if life elsewhere in the universe ...
One group of experts now say that looking for life on water and oxygen-rich planets could be a waste of time.
New research from ETH Zurich challenges the long-held “follow the water” rule in the search for extraterrestrial life. Scientists argue that a planet’s habitability depends on a narrow chemical ...
Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...
The question of extraterrestrial life has resurfaced in public discourse after former U.S. President Barack Obama commented ...